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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (8644)	3/29/2003 6:38:11 PM
From: augieboo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11447

In the first place, I haven't seen any evidence that we "dropped" anything an a heavily populated area. But I'll put that one aside for the moment and ask this: Are you sure you know what a bunker buster is? I think that if one finds it necessary to drop any sort of ordnance in a heavily populated area then a bunkerbuster is about as benign to the civilian population as you can get, given that it is designed to explode as much as 100 feet UNDERGROUND. Guided Bomb Unit-28 (GBU-28) BLU-113 Penetrator Function: Bomb with guidance control system. Description: The Guided Bomb Unit-28 (GBU-28) is a special weapon developed for penetrating hardened Iraqi command centers located deep underground. The GBU-28 is a 5,000-pound laser-guided conventional munition that uses a 4,400-pound penetrating warhead. The bombs are modified Army artillery tubes, weigh 4,637 pounds, and contain 630 pounds of high explosives. They are fitted with GBU-27 LGB kits, 14.5 inches in diameter and almost 19 feet long. The operator illuminates a target with a laser designator and then the munition guides to a spot of laser energy reflected from the target. The GBU-28 "Bunker Buster" was developed specifically to destroy Iraqi underground hardened command bunkers during the Gulf War. Scratch built from a section of surplus 8" howitzer barrel filled with 600 pounds of explosives, the 5,000 pound GBU-28 is capable of penetrating more than 20 feet of reinforced concrete and deeper than 100 feet underground. Equipped with essentially the same guidance hardware as the GBU-10 Paveway II, the GBU-28 is capable of hitting discrete, hardened targets deep underground. The GBU-28 was successfully used twice during the Gulf War, with each of the weapons being released by FB-111F Aardvarks for use against buried command bunkers. military.com